Can anyone shed some light on this. I just would like to know if queries for raw data (not aggregregates) is expected to take a long time. Running times between 30 - 2 hours for large dataset pulls. Involves lots of joins on very large tables (min 1 millon rows each table, 300 columns per table) Joins are done in the form of Left joins (sometimes on the same tables, due to normalisation) Is 30min - 2hours too long or is this considered "normal"?? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly